Music

[vc_row][vc_column][vc_column_text]By Melina Paris, Music Columnist
One of Spain’s finest guitarists and an all-female salsa band are slated to get all feet on the dance floor this month at the Grand Annex in San Pedro.
Spanish guitarist El Twanguero performs Oct. 13 and Las Chik

[vc_row content_placement="top" el_class="frontpagetop"][vc_column width="2/3"][vc_separator border_width="2"][vc_column_text]Seeing Herbie Hancock and Kamasi Washington share the stage would be way too powerful. The masters must be taken in synchronized doses to let us take in the magic. Read More

Entertainment for the Masses on Labor Day

By Melina Paris, Contributing Writer
The Los Angeles / Long Beach Harbor Labor Coalition presents the largest Labor Day event in the western half of United States, Sept. 4 at Wilmington’s Banning
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[vc_row][vc_column][vc_column_text]By Melina Paris, Music Columnist
Nasty women gathered all around for the inaugural Nasty Woman Concert Series kickoff July 8 at diPiazza’s Restaurant, Lounge and Nightclub in Long Beach.
Named after Donald Trump’s description of Hillary Clinton during the 2016 election cycle, this to

[vc_row][vc_column][vc_column_text]By Zamná Ávila, Assistant Editor
A few months ago, I stumbled upon a radio station playing Celia Cruz’s hit song, Carnaval. I lingered on the dial hoping to catch some more cumbia, merengue or salsa. (I grew up listening to tropical rhy

[vc_row][vc_column][vc_column_text]By Melina Paris, Music Columnist
In a space inhabited with luminous, clouds Jimetta Rose provided both poetry and music, June 30, during her Resonance presentation at Zebulon in Los Angeles. It was about, in her words, “healing tones, words and visuals.”

[vc_row][vc_column][vc_column_text]By Lyn Jensen, Contributing Writer
In the darkness of the reactionary Reagan era, U2 lit a candle, an unforgettable fire of music that mattered.
Throughout the 80s these four white Christian street punks from Dublin — Bono, The Edge, Adam Clayton and Larry Mullen Jr. — gave us songs that honored M

[vc_row][vc_column][vc_column_text]By Melina Paris, Music Columnist
Re-imagining the transcendent music of legendary producer Jay Dee, (or J. Dilla) is how multi-instrumentalist, arranger and composer, Miguel Atwood-Ferguson described his June 24 show at Grand Performances.
The beloved J. Dilla’s music couldn’t have b

LGBTQ Feminism and the Arts Intersect

By Kym Cunningham, Contributing Writer
During the October 2016 presidential debate, Donald Trump brusquely referred to Hillary Clinton as “such a nasty woman” to discredit her comments concerning his elusive tax returns.
While th
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[vc_row][vc_column][vc_column_text]By Melina Paris, Music Columnist
To trumpet player, composer and producer Christian Scott, expression is supreme. His stretch music is a conversation of different cultures from both today and the past.
Scott, who performed a show June 4 at the Roxy in Hollywood, expresses a musical diasp